The 5 senses

Question 1

Eye: What is the stimulus?

Answer 1

Light.

Question 2

Eye: What is the receiver?

Answer 2

Eye.

Question 3

Eye: What is the transformer?

Answer 3

Retina.

Question 4

Eye: What is the conductor?

Answer 4

Optic Nerve.

Question 5

Eye: What is the analyzer?

Answer 5

Brain.

Question 6

Eye: What is the cornea?

Answer 6

The transparent part that bulges in front of the iris and pupil and is the continuity of the sclera.

Question 7

Eye: What is the aqueous humour?

Answer 7

A transparent jelly in between the cornea and the iris.

Question 8

Eye: What is the iris?

Answer 8

The coloured part of the eye.

Question 9

Eye: What does the iris do?

Answer 9

It adjusts the amount of light going on the retina.

Question 10

Eye: What is the pupil?

Answer 10

The hole in the eye.

Question 11

Eye: What is the lens?

Answer 11

A convex shaped thing that contracts and extends depending on the distance of the object to focus on it.

Question 12

Eye: What does the lens do?

Answer 12

It flips the light and focuses it on the retina.

Question 13

Eye: What is the vitreous humour?

Answer 13

A transparent jelly in between the lens and the retina.

Question 14

Eye: What is the retina?

Answer 14

Its where the light/image focuses on.

Question 15

Eye: What light sensitive highly specialized cells are on the retina?

Answer 15

Rods and cones.

Question 16

Eye: What do rods and cones do?

Answer 16

They transform light and images into nerve impulses.

Question 17

Eye: What is the choroid?

Answer 17

Its the continued part of the iris.

Question 18

Eye: What is the choroid made up of?

Answer 18

Blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen to the eye.

Question 19

Eye: What is the sclera?

Answer 19

The white tough surface of the eye except the cornea.

Question 20

Eye: What is the optic nerve?

Answer 20

A wire like thing that sends the nerve impulses to the brain.

Question 21

Eye: Where is the blind spot?

Answer 21

Its where the optic nerve begins.

Question 22

Eye: Where is the fovea?

Answer 22

The back and center of the retina.

Question 23

Eye: What is refraction?

Answer 23

It’s when light travels at different speeds through different media.

Question 24

Eye: How do we see?

Answer 24

The image/light gets flipped onto the retina when it goes through the lens, then gets flipped back upright by our brain.

Question 25

Eye: Whats the scientific term for nearsightedness?

Answer 25

Myopia.

Question 26

Eye: Whats the scientific term for farsightedness?

Answer 26

Hyperopia.

Question 27

Eye: Myopia: The light focuses too near so the image is formed where?

Answer 27

In front of the retina.

Question 28

Eye: Myopia: Why is the image in front of the retina? (Name 3 things)

Answer 28

The eyeball is too long, the lens is too thick, or strong ciliary muscles.

Question 29

Eye: How can you correct the vision of a myopic person?

Answer 29

A concave lens.

Question 30

Eye: Hyperopia: The light focuses too far so the image is formed where?

Answer 30

Behind the retina.

Question 31

Eye: Hyperopia: Why is the image behind the retina? (Name 3 things)

Answer 31

The eyeball is too short, the lens is too thin, or weak ciliary muscles.

Question 32

Eye: How can you correct the vision of a farsighted person?

Answer 32

A convex lens.

Question 33

Eye: What is presbyopia?

Answer 33

The same as hyperopia except its due to aging.

Question 34

Eye: What happens with presbyopia?

Answer 34

The lens loses its elasticity and cant bend the light as much therefore it focuses beyond the retina.

Question 35

Ear: Whats the stimulus?

Answer 35

Sound waves.

Question 36

Ear: Whats the receiver?

Answer 36

Ear.

Question 37

Ear: Whats the transformer?

Answer 37

The cochlea.

Question 38

Ear: Whats the conductor?

Answer 38

Auditory nerve.

Question 39

Ear: Whats the analyzer?

Answer 39

Brain.

Question 40

Ear: Whats the auricle and what does it do?

Answer 40

The outside part that we see and it captures the sound and directs it to the ear drum.

Question 41

Ear: What is the auditory canal and what do the glands produce?

Answer 41

The tube in your ear leading to the ear drum and it secretes cereumen, (ear wax).

Question 42

Ear: The auditory canal is lined with what to trap impurities?

Answer 42

Hairs.

Question 43

Ear: What is an ear drum and what does it do?

Answer 43

It's a thin membrane that vibrates the ossicles.

Question 44

Ear: Ear drums are very sensitive to what?

Answer 44

Pressure change.

Question 45

Ear: What are ossicles?

Answer 45

The 3 little bones/the smallest bones in t`he body.

Question 46

Ear: Name the 3 ossicles.

Answer 46

1-Hammer 2-Anvil 3-Stirrup

Question 47

Ear: How do the ossicles work together?

Answer 47

They vibrate together and make a domino effect to amplify the sound.

Question 48

Ear: What is the cochlea?

Answer 48

It's a tube that coils around itself and that is specialized with hair cells.

Question 49

Ear: What does the cochlea DO?

Answer 49

It turns it into nerve impulses/electricity.

Question 50

Ear: What helps you maintain your balance?

Answer 50

Semi-circular canals,(there are 3).

Question 51

Ear: Where is the auditory nerve connected to? (Name 2 things).

Answer 51

To the cochlea and the semi-circular canals.

Question 52

Ear: What does the auditory nerve do?

Answer 52

It sends the nerve impulses to the brain.

Question 53

Ear: What does the cochlea contain?

Answer 53

Nerve endings essential for hearing.

Question 54

Ear: What does the eustachian tube do?

Answer 54

It equalizes pressure on either side of the ear drum.

Question 55

Touch: What is the largest organ of the body?

Answer 55

Skin.

Question 56

Touch: How many layers is skin made of?

Answer 56

2

Question 57

Touch: The outer layer of the skin is called what?

Answer 57

Epidermis.

Question 58

Touch: What bis the epidermis made of?

Answer 58

Epithelial tissues.

Question 59

Touch: The epidermis contains 2 types of cells, name them.

Answer 59

Keratin and melanin.

Question 60

Touch: What is keratin?

Answer 60

A protein that makes the skin waterproof.

Question 61

Touch: What is melanin?

Answer 61

A brown pigment that colours the skin.

Question 62

Touch: The inner layer is called what?

Answer 62

Dermis.

Question 63

Touch: What cools the body and where does it exert the body?

Answer 63

Sweat glands through pores.

Question 64

Touch: Where does hair grow? (pockets)

Answer 64

Hair follicles.

Question 65

Touch: What are connected to the hair follicles and what do they do?

Answer 65

Oil glands that keep the skin and hair soft.

Question 66

Taste: How often do taste buds grow back?

Answer 66

Every 4 days.

Question 67

Taste: The organ we use to taste is called what?

Answer 67

Tongue.

Question 68

Taste: What are the receptors on the tongue?

Answer 68

Taste buds.

Question 69

Taste: To taste something what do we need?

Answer 69

Saliva.

Question 70

Taste: What are the openings in the taste buds?

Answer 70

Taste pores.

Question 71

Taste: What two senses are linked in this case?

Answer 71

Smell and taste.

Question 72

Taste: How does smell aid in tasting things?

Answer 72

Air enters from the nose and goes into the back of the throat so we taste a strong odor that we breathe in.

Question 73

Smell: The nose is made up of what 2 things?

Answer 73

1-Bone | 2-Cartilage

Question 74

Smell: What are two openings that air is inhale and exhaled in?

Answer 74

Nostrils.

Question 75

Smell: Why are the nasal passages curved?

Answer 75

So that air flows and changes directions.

Question 76

Smell: _____ ______ are invisible particles given off by smelly things.

Answer 76

Scent molecules.

Question 77

Smell: As you breathe in, some of these molecules enter the nose and reach the _____ _____.

Answer 77

Receptors cells.

Question 78

Smell: Electrical impulses are sent to the brain from what nerve?

Answer 78

Olfactory nerve.

Question 79

Smell: Where do the scent messages register as smell?

Answer 79

The olfactory bulb.

Question 80

Smell: We have different receptors for _______ ______.

Answer 80

Different gases.